Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-08-12

Haydn was right when he waved his hand
| toward Heaven and said: at comes from
| there
Music was born in heaven and it will ever
have its highest throne in heaven; and | want
you to understand that our departed friends
who were passionately fond of music here. are
| now at the headquarters OF harmony.
| think that the grand old church tunes that
| died when your grandfathers died have gone
| with them to heaven.
| Again, remark that those of our departed
| Christian friends who in this world had very
strong military spirit are now in armies Celes-
tial and out on bloodless battle. There are
| hundreds of people born soldiers. They can
not help it. They belong to regiments I'D
| time or peace They cannot hear a drum or
fife without trying to keep step to the music.
| They are Christians, and when they fight they
fight on the right side. Now when these, our
| Christian friends who had natural and pow
erful military spirit, entered Heaven, they en-
tered the celestial army.
| The door of Heaven hardly opens but You
hear military demonstration. David cried
| out: 1.-The chariots of God are twenty thou
sand" Elisha saw the mountains filled with
| celestial cavalry. st. John said: '"rhe
armies which are in heaven followed him on
| white horses" Now, when those who had
| the military spirit on earth sanctified entered
| glory, l suppose they right away enlisted
in some heavenly campaign, they
volunteered right away. There must
| needs be in Heaven soldiers with q
soldierly spirit. There are grand parade
days when the King reviews the troops.
mere must De armed escort sent; out TO bring
| up from earth TO Heaven those who were
more than conquerors.. There must be
| crusades ever being fitted out for some part
| of Gods dominion-battles, bloodless, groan-
| less, painless. Angels of evil to be fought
down and fought back. Other rebellious
worlds to be conquered Worlds to be put
| to the torch. Worlds to be saved Worlds
to he demolished. Worlds to be sunk.
| Worlds to be hoisted.
Beside that, in our own world there are bat-
ties for the right and against the wrong wlers
| we must have the heavenly military. That
is what keeps us Christian reformerS so buoy
ant. so few good men against so many bad
| men, SO few churches against SO many grog-
shops, so few pure printing presses against so
many polluted printing presses, and yet we
are buoyant and courageous, because while we
| know that the armies of evil In the world are
larger in number than the army of the truth,
there ara celestial cohorts in the air fighting
| OH our side.
have not so much faith in the srmy on
the ground as have in the army in the air.
| q, uou open our eyes JnaU we may see them
The military spirits that went up from earth
to join the military spirits before tie throne
Joshua, and Caleb, and Gideon, and David
and Samson, and the hundreds of Christian
warriors who on earth fought with fleshly
! arm, and now having gone up on high are
| coming down the hills of Heaven ready to
tight among the invisibles Wonder they are
coming, coming. Did You not hear them
as they swept byf
But what are our mathematical friends to
do in the next worldi They found their Joy
and their delight in mathematics There was
more poetry for them in Euclid than in John
Milton. They Were rs passionate!y fond of
mathematics as Plato, who wrote over his
door: Let no one enter here who is not ac-
| quainted with geometry" What are they
doing MOVIE They are busy with figures yet
No place in all the universe like Heaven for
| figures. Numbers infinite distances infinite
calculations infinite. The didatic DR.. Dick
said he really thought that the redeemed in
Heaven spent some of their time with the
higher branches Of matthew atics
Some of our transferred and transported
metaphy siclans--what are they doing now?
Studying the human mind, only under better
| circumstances than they used to study it,
They used to study the mind sheathed in the
dull human body. Now the spirit unsheathed
now they are studying the sword outside
the scabbard Have you any doubt about
what Sir William Hamilton is doing in
Heaven, or what Jonathan Edwards is do
ing in Heaven, or the multitudes on earth
who had passion for metaphysics sanctified
| by the grace of Code No difficulty in guess
ing. Metaphysics, glorious metaphysics, ever
lasting metaphysics.
What are our departed Christian friends
who are explorers doing now2 Exploring
| yet, but with lightning locomotion, with
vision microscopic and telescope at the same
time A continent at glance A world in
q second. planetary system in a day.
Christian John Franklin no more in disabled
"Erebus" pushing toward the North Pole,
CHRISTIAN De Long no more trying to free
| hlnakadad of an iao
! Livingstone no more amid African malarias
| trying to make revelation of dark con-
| tinent; but all of them in the twinkling of an
| eve taking in that which was unapproachable
Mont Blanc scaled without alpenstock. The
coral depths of the ocean explored without a
| diving bell. The mountains unbarred and
opened without Sir Humphrey Davy's safety
lamp
What are our departed friends who found
their chief Joy in study doing now? Studying
yet but instead of few thousanl' volumes
on few shelves, oil the volumes of the uni
verse open before them-geologc, ornitholo.
| gic, conchologic, botanic, aStronomic philo-
sophie. No more need of Leyden- jars, or
voltaic piles, or electric batteries, standing
as they do face to face with the facts Of
| the universe.
What are the historians doing nowl Study
ing history yet, but not the history of a few
centuries of our planet only, but the history
of the eternities-whole milleniumS before
XenOphon, or Herodotus. or Moses or Adam
was born. History of one world, history Of
all worlds.
What are our departed astronomers doingi
Studying astronomy yet, but not through the
dull lens OF earthly observatory, but with
one stroke OF wing going right out to Jupiter
and Mars and Mercury and Saturn and Orion
and the Misunderstanding and passing
swiftest comet in their flight Helschel died
| "A Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Herschel is doing' Isaac Newton died
a Christian Have YOU any doubt about
what Isaac Newton is doingi Joseph Henry
died Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Joseph Henry is doingl They were in
discussion, all these astronomers of earth,
about what the aurora borealis was, and
none Of them could guess They know now
they have been out there to see for them
selves.
What are our departed Christian chemists
dongf Following out their own science,
following out and following out forever.
Since they died they have solved ten thou.
sand questions which once puzzled the earthly
laboratory. They stand on the other side of
the thin wall of electricity, the wall that
seems to divide the physical from the spiritual
world, the thin wall of electricity, so thin the
wall that ever and anon it seems to be almost
broken through-broken through from our
side by telephone and telegraphlc apparatus
broken through from the other side by
strange influences which men in their ignor-
ance call spiritualistic manifestations. AL
that matter cleared. Agassz standing
amid his student explorers down in Brazil
coming across some great novelty in TIL,
rocks, taking off his hat and saying: ''Gen
tlemen, let us pray; we must have divms il
lumination; we want wisdom from the
Creator to study these rocks: He made them
let us pray.a Agassiz going right OH witt
his studies forever and forever
But what are the men of the law, who ir
this world found their chief Joy in the lega
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